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Henrietta Ball Boy Ejection

Hands down, the best high school football game I've been to all year has to be the Cisco vs. Henrietta Bi-District Playoff game.

The Cisco Loboes were trying to bring the belly jersey back in style and the Henrietta ball boy got tossed for doing what he was supposed to do.

The Bearcats were putting a drive together early in the game, I believe in the second quarter, when a Henrietta player was tackled out of bounds.

The Henrietta player got up and started his little act of bravery by going for the gang of Cisco players that tackled him.

He made a valid attempt at a little head butt, but it really didn't connect. Overall, the play and the actions after the tackle by the players wasn't that big of a deal.

But the events that transpired after the tackle were hilarious - to me anyway.

The line judge comes running across the field to try and get the flow of the game back to where it should be.

He starts calling for the ball and the little Henrietta Bearcat, all five foot three inches and 105 pounds, does his basketball pass of a football to the ref.

The ref, still calling for the ball, gets hit with the ball in the knee. You'd think the someone just insulted the ref's mom by the look on his face.

The kid just made a boneheaded throw. He had been doing a top-notch job all game. On the spot ball boy, but he just messed up in the heat of the moment.

If memory serves me correctly, he almost got wiped out by the play when the player was taken down out of bounds.

So he tries to go towards the ref after the ball bounces off the ref's knee and he's told to go take a knee.

The kid is heartbroken. He was old enough, so it seemed, to appear like he could handle the type of disappointment associated with getting relieved of his duties.

He didn't leave, he stayed on the field, but for the rest of the season, he'll never throw a ball to a ref again.

Mainly because Henrietta lost, but still.

Posted by Clayton Hein at 11:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)